In the past, we looked at the early evolution of postmodernist philosophy and the birth of subdisciplines made from it in our university humanities departments. A central feature of these subdisciplines is “a call to identity politics, which requires adopting an identity as part of some marginalized group or being…

In Humanity’s First Colossal Blunder, we looked at the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East and the dramatic shift in lifeway it imposed. Until then, for tens of thousands of years, humans lived their entire lives, generation after generation, in close-knit, thick…

Has feminism’s quest for equality become a quest for vengeance? Enlightenment liberal feminism began “in accordance with modernist ideals of secular, liberal democracy, individual agency within a framework of universal human rights, and an Enlightenment focus on reason and science,” writes Pluckrose and Lindsay in their Cynical Theories. Among those…

In Patrick J. Deneen’s Why Liberalism Failed he offers a cause for Western civilization’s descent and our experience of disconnectedness fueled by a strange concept Deneen calls borderlessness: “the arbitrariness of almost every border [where] any differentiation, distinction, boundary, and delineation…come under suspicion as arbitrarily limiting individual freedom of choice.”…

In previous posts, we introduced the explicitly stated crusade against the West launched by French postmodernists of the 1960s, surveyed a sliver of the movement’s historical development as it found “safe spaces” in university humanities departments, and sampled the search for a coherent social virus that would leap “from academics…

In previous posts we encountered the radical academic left’s war on the West. A war that targets science, reason, knowledge, objectivity, and concepts of reality as pillars of the West since the Enlightenment. As we’ll see, this return to superstition is not merely a rhetorical goal, but an actionable one…

In 1986, University of Delaware (now UCLA) philosopher Sandra Harding wrote The Science Question in Feminism, a pioneering work of feminist theory still taught today in Women’s Studies courses across America. There, Harding asks what value science has to women when it “serves primarily regressive social tendencies [that are] not…

Why do so many university sociologists of the New Left claim science is in fact “bourgeois science”? Is there a communist science, a socialist science? Is science a social product, “a mere set of conventions generated by social practice” and prevailing social prejudice as postmodernist academics assert? How do all…

It ain’t pretty Democratic forms of governance continue their global backslide in a retreat not seen since the ancient Greeks lost it to commence 2000 years of self-governing blackout. While modern populism’s heartthrob, Vladimir Putin — a “Genius,” “Some peacekeeper,” says Trump, has proven himself a fellow bumbler and war…